Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 72
And with these words the bride drew forth the finger and shewed it to the assembled guests.
Who acts: bride · What happens: draw, shew, assemble · To what, where: finger, ring
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drew | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drew | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bride | det |
| 6 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | nsubj |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 drew | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 finger | det |
| 10 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shewed | cc |
| 12 | shewed | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drew | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shewed | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 guests | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 guests | det |
| 16 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 guests | amod |
| 17 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shewed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the bride | the finger | with this words; forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | |||
| 2 | shew | past | the bride not said here | ring | to the assembled guests | tree rules | |||
| 3 | assemble | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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